Display device



DISPLAY DEVICE Filed March 24. 1923 INVENTOR A Tram/1? Y i atented Nov. b, W23.

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Application filled March as. $23. Serial No. 627383.

To all it may concern I Be it known that l, Creams D. P1AIT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices; and I do declare the follow in to be a full, clear, and exact description o the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures at reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a display device particularly adapted for use as a slip-on device for containers.

It is shown as applied to a milk bottle and it consists of two diametrically oppositely located container-engaging members connected by webs, the members and webs when in functional position lying in substantially the plane of the wall of the container so that at least one member will be visible from the front side of the container, and this member may contain zcertain indicia or printed matter distinguishing the article on which it is located.

The invention is so constructed that it may be formed from a blank struck from a flexible sheet at a single 0 eration so that the two members and the we 5 will be provided in such a way that the members can be bent at right angles to the position they assume in the blank and so that the webs will lie inplanes substantially at right angles to that they assume in the blank, leaving a central opening through which one end of the container may pro ect.

The novel construction of the invention will be apparent by reference to the following description in connection with the ac companying drawings, in which-- l Fig. 1 is a plan viewot a blank.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a container to which my invention is applied, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the display device removed from the container.

The blank for the display device is indicated in Fig. 1 as consisting of a sheet 1 with two intercepting slits 2 and 3 within the margin thereof and cut on arcs curved opposite directions, the slits interce ting one another about midway their lengt s so that they merge into a common slit at their middle portions, as indicated at 4. The

merging point of the two arcuatev slits 3 and 4 is preferably at the transverse center of the sheet 1 so as to provide two display members 5 and 6 of approximately the same area. The n'iembers 5. and 6 can be bent at right angles to the plane of the blank: so that they assume the positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3 with 'webs 7 and 8 connecting them, the webs having upwardly directed, converging ends or points 9 and ll) which are adapted to lie close to the neck oi the mill; bottle 11 on which they are shown. top of the members 5 and 6 ap roximatel halt round. The ends of the blan t are round ed as at 12 and 13 and between the members 5 and 6 is a connectin member 14, which also has its sides roun ed. 'The ends of the member 1% connect the"members 5 and 6 at the narrowest points of said membars 5 and 6 and at the narrowest portions of the member 14 so that when theblank is bent as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the members 5 and 6 assume the form of a bib apron, on the bib portion of which I have shown the figure of a millnnaid although, obviously, other indicia may be placed thereon and below the pictorial representation of a milkmaid may be placed suitable advertising matter, instructions or other indicia.

It will be observed that when the blank is bent into the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the-display device will have a central opening bounded by the members 5 and 53 and the connecting webs 7 and 8, formed from the members 14 and that the device" can be conveniently slipped over the container. for example, a milk bottle, so as to provide an attractive embellishment therefor.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

. 1. A blank for display devices comprising a flexible sheet formed of a central memher and twoend members integral therewith, the central member having intermediate its endstwo intercepting arcuate slits roviding webs for connecting the two en members, the webs having inwardly extendin converging ends which, when the blank is bent so that the end members are at right angles to the plane of the blank, will also be at right angles to the plane of the blank to provide a central opening to receive a container.

2. -A display device comprising two dia metrically opposite vertical skirt members The arcuate slits 2 and 3 term the llll) connected by'webs at substantially right ancurved ends of the skirt portions, the inter- 10 gles thereto, the webs having upwardly exmediate member of the b ank being arcually tending bottle neck en aging oints. slitted crosswise to provide tongues adapt- 3. As a new article 0 manu acture, a dised to be bent out from the blank, the end 5 play device comprising a blank of flexible portions on the opposite sides of the slits of -material having two oppositely disposed subthe intermediate member being also adapt- 15 stantially rounded ends to form skirt pored to bebent outwardly.

tions and an intermediate member connect- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ing them with curved sides between the CHARLES D. PIATT. 

